Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
How an Italian Judge Made the Internet Illegal
November 28th, 2008Via: Register: Italian bloggers are up in arms at a court ruling early this year that suggests almost all Italian blogs are illegal. This month, a senior Italian politician went one step further, warning that most web activity is likely to be against the law. The story begins back in May, when a judge in […]
Noosphereoogle Detects Flu Outbreaks Faster Than CDC
November 12th, 2008It’s the Noosphere. It’s Google. It’s the Noosphereoogle. Here are some comments from a previous post called, Astonishing Security Breach at South African Nuclear Facility: There’s a google tool anyone can use to observe meme saturation over time. It’s interesting stuff. http://www.google.com/trends Maybe .mil/.gov has a way of excluding the influence of crap culture and […]
Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs
November 11th, 2008Via: Design Observer: One rainy night eight years ago, in Watertown, Massachusetts, a man was taking his dog for a walk. On the curb, in front of a neighbor’s house, he spotted a pile of trash: old mattresses, cardboard boxes, a few broken lamps. Amidst the garbage he caught sight of a battered suitcase. He […]
Obama Website Scrubs Mandatory Community Service Call
November 10th, 2008Via: Infowars: Following a controversy over language that appeared on Barack Obama’s official website suggesting that Americans would be mandated to complete up to 100 hours of community service as part of a national service program, the original text has been memory-holed and replaced with a more sanitized version. Despite numerous bloggers picking up on […]
British Government Seeks Unprecedented Powers to Censor the Media
November 10th, 2008Via: Independent: Britain’s security agencies and police would be given unprecedented and legally binding powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security, under proposals being discussed in Whitehall. The Intelligence and Security Committee, the parliamentary watchdog of the intelligence and security agencies which has a cross-party membership from both Houses, wants to […]
The GM Genocide
November 4th, 2008Via: Daily Mail: Shankara, like millions of other Indian farmers, had been promised previously unheard of harvests and income if he switched from farming with traditional seeds to planting GM seeds instead. Beguiled by the promise of future riches, he borrowed money in order to buy the GM seeds. But when the harvests failed, he […]
Soviet Republic of Australia: The Word ‘Drought’ is Too Upsetting for Farmers; ‘Dryness’ is More Comforting
October 27th, 2008No, this isn’t The Onion. Via: Telegraph: The word “drought” makes farmers feel depressed and should be replaced with “dryness”, a panel of Australian government experts has said. The group also warned farmers to get used to the lack of rain because dry conditions are expected to continue. “Words like drought … have negative connotations […]
Australia: No Opt-Out of Filtered Internet
October 17th, 2008Would you like filtered, or filtered? Via: Computerworld: Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government’s pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say. Under the government’s $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users can switch between two blacklists which block content inappropriate for children, and a […]
Proud American
October 6th, 2008I’ve never smoked crack before, but I’d guess that watching Proud American would produce similar effects. Nope, it’s not Idiocracy 2, but it is “Presented by CocaCola, MasterCard, American Airlines and WalMart.” Research Credit: JF
China Fakes Reports from Space
September 27th, 2008Via: Telegraph: China’s state news agency published a despatch from the country’s three latest astronauts describing their first night in space before they had even left Earth. The Xinhua agency, which has sometimes been accused of carrying state propaganda, took down the story and blamed it on a “technical error”. The article described the Shenzhou […]
